AIB Group Plc — AGM Information 2021

May 6, 2021

RESOLUTIONS OF AIB GROUP PLC (the "Company")

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 10 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday, 6 May 2021 the following Resolutions were passed as Special Resolutions:

• 1. As separate resolutions:
• (a) That, subject to the passing of Resolution 7, the Directors be and are hereby empowered pursuant to section 1023 of the Companies Act 2014 (as amended) ("the "Act") to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023 of the Act) for cash under the authority given by Resolution 7 as if sub-section (1) of section 1022 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited:
  • (i) to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue, open offer or other invitation to or in favour of the holders of ordinary shares of €0.625 each where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of such holders are proportional (as nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held by them (but subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements that would otherwise arise or with legal or practical problems under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory, or otherwise howsoever); and
  • (ii) to the allotment (otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) above) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of €84,824,413.66,

during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expiring on the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or 5 August 2022 (whichever shall be earlier), provided that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.

• (b) That, subject to the passing of Resolution 8, the Directors be and are hereby empowered pursuant to section 1023 of the Companies Act 2014 (as amended) (the "Act") (and in addition to any authority granted under Resolution 9(a) to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023 of the Act) for cash under the authority given by Resolution 8 as if sub-section (1) of section 1022 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be:
• (i) limited to the allotment of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of €84,824,413.66; and

(ii) used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within six months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Directors determine to be an acquisition or other capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles for the disapplication of Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice of Annual General Meeting,

during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expiring on the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or 5 August 2022 (whichever shall be earlier), provided that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.

• 1. That the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries (as defined by Section 7 of the Companies Act 2014 (as amended) (the "Act") be and they are hereby generally authorised to make market purchases or overseas market purchases (each term as defined in Section 1072 of the Act), of shares of any class of the Company (the "Share" or "Shares") on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Directors may from time to time determine but subject to the provisions of the Act and to the following restrictions and provisions:
• (a) the maximum number of Shares authorised to be acquired pursuant to the terms of this Resolution shall be such number of Shares whose aggregate nominal value shall equal 10% of the aggregate nominal value of the issued share capital of the Company as at the close of business on the date of the passing of this Resolution;
• (b) the minimum price which may be paid for any Share shall be the nominal value of the Share;
• (c) the maximum price (excluding expenses) which may be paid for any Share in the Company (a "Relevant Share") shall be the higher of:
  • (i) 5% above the average of the closing quotation prices of a Relevant Share on Euronext Dublin for the five business days immediately preceding the day of purchase (and, in respect of any business day on which there shall be no dealing in such shares on Euronext Dublin, the price which is equal to (A) the mid-point between the high and low market guide prices in respect of such shares for that business day, or (B) if there shall be only one such market guide price so published, the market guide price so published; such prices shall be as published in the Daily Official List of Euronext Dublin (or any successor publication thereto or any equivalent publication for securities admitted to trading on Euronext Dublin)); and
  • (ii) the amount stipulated by Article 5(6) of the Market Abuse Regulation 2014 (No. 596/2014) or any corresponding provision of any replacement legislation, being the value of a Relevant Share calculated on the basis of the higher of the price for:
  • A. the last independent trade of; and
  • B. the highest current independent bid for;

any number of Relevant Shares on the trading venue where the purchase pursuant to the authority conferred by this Resolution will be carried out.

If the means of providing the foregoing information as to dealings and prices by reference to which the maximum price is to be determined is altered or is replaced by some other means, then a maximum price shall be determined on the basis of the equivalent information published by the relevant authority in relation to dealings on Euronext Dublin or its equivalent; and

• (d) the authority hereby granted shall commence on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or 5 August 2022 (whichever shall be earlier). The Company or any such subsidiary may before such expiry enter into a contract for the purchase of Shares which would or might be executed wholly or partly after such expiry and may complete any such contract as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
• 1. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, for the purposes of Sections 109 and/or 1078 of the Companies Act (as amended) (the "Act") the re-issue price range at which any treasury shares (as defined in the Companies Act, 2014) for the time being held by the Company may be re-issued (including by way of re-issue off market) shall be as follows:
• (a) the maximum price at which a treasury share may be re-issued off-market shall be an amount equal to 120% of the Appropriate Price; and
• (b) the minimum price at which a treasury share may be re-issued off-market shall be the nominal value of the share where such share is re-allotted under an employees' share scheme (as defined by Section 64 of the Companies Act 2014) and in all other circumstances shall be 95% of the Appropriate Price.

For the purposes of this resolution the expression "Appropriate Price" shall mean the average of the closing quotation prices of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the treasury share is re-issued, as published in the Daily Official List of Euronext Dublin (or any successor publication thereto any equivalent publication for securities admitted to trading on the market in Ireland on which the Company's ordinary shares are from time to time admitted to trading) or if on any business day there shall be no dealing of ordinary shares on the trading venue or a closing price is not otherwise available the price which is equal to:

• (i) the mid-point between the high and low market guide prices in respect of such shares for such business day as published in in the Daily Official List of Euronext Dublin (or any successor publication thereto any equivalent publication for securities admitted to trading on the market in Ireland on which the Company's ordinary shares are from time to time admitted to trading); or
• (ii) if there shall be only one such market guide price so published, the market guide price so published).

The authority hereby conferred shall commence on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or 5 August 2022 (whichever shall be the earlier) and is without prejudice or limitation to any other authority of the Company to re-issue treasury shares on-market.

1. That the Articles of Association of the Company be and are hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection (d) in Article 129 of the Articles of Association:

"(d) If the Directors decide that a dividend payment will be made by electronic means to an account (of a type approved by the Directors) nominated by a Holder or joint Holders, but no such account is nominated by the Holder or joint Holders or an electronic transfer into a nominated account is rejected or refunded, the Company may credit the amount payable to an account of the Company to be held until such time as the Holder nominates a valid account."

• 1. That in accordance with Section 1102 of the Companies Act 2014 (as amended) and Articles 57 and 58 of the Articles of Association of the Company, the Directors of the Company be and are unconditionally authorised to call a general meeting, other than an annual general meeting or a meeting for the passing of a special resolution, on not less than 14 clear days' notice. The authority hereby conferred shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company held after the passing of this resolution unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting.
• 1. That the terms of the contract between the Company and the Minster for Finance (a copy of which has been produced to the meeting and has been made available for inspection at the Company's registered office from the date of the notice of this meeting to the date of this meeting (the "Directed Buyback Contract") providing for off-market purchases (as defined by section 1072 of the Companies Act 2014) from the Minister for Finance or his nominee of fully paid ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at such times and at such prices and in such numbers and otherwise on the other terms and conditions set out in the Directed Buyback Contract, be and are hereby approved and authorised for the purposes of section 1075 of the Companies Act 2014 and the Company be and is hereby authorised to make, subject to the Minister for Finance's agreement, such off-market purchases from the Minister for Finance or his nominee, provided that:
• (i) the authority hereby conferred shall, unless previously varied, revoked or renewed, expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, or 5 August 2022 (whichever is earlier); and
• (ii) where the Company concludes a contract to purchase Ordinary Shares pursuant to the authority hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority (which will or may be executed wholly or partly after such expiry), it may make a purchase of Ordinary Shares pursuant to such contract as if the authority had not expired.